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Corn Bunting
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Habitat and behaviour
Habitat: Cereal fields.
Diet: Seeds, insects.
Best time to spot: Jangling-keys song; declining.
When to look
Resident in the UK, so it can be found year-round. More on the season in Bird migration in Britain.
How rare is it?
The Corn Bunting sits in our Uncommon tier for the UK: regular, but you usually need the right place or the right season. It is Red-listed in Birds of Conservation Concern 5, the highest level of concern in the UK.
Recent UK sightings
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Similar birds
- Chestnut-eared BuntingLegendary · Fields (extreme vagrant)
- Cirl BuntingRare · Sunny mixed farmland
- Reed BuntingCommon · Reedbeds
- YellowhammerCommon · Hedged farmland
- Black-faced BuntingLegendary · Coastal scrub (very rare vagrant)
- Black-headed BuntingEpic · Open scrub (vagrant)
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